>> we get to build the community here. this is different. first of all, this is a great location. it is in a less-populated area. >> of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. it is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. the people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. >> we offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. we offer classes basically in

the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. >> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it.

we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of

field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center

focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes. >> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's

hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my

biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage,

that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space

let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family

that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my

calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the

rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is

work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. >> my s.f. dove -- government

t.v. moment was when i received a commendation award from supervisor chris daly. then we sang a duet in the board chamber. [singing] >> happy anniversary san francisco government t.v. happy anniversary to you. happy anniversary san francisco government t.v. anniversary, anniversary, happy 25th anniversary to you. [♪] [♪]

>> i just don't know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. it is an experience that you can't have anywhere else in san francisco. [♪] [♪] >> district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. we have four neighborhoods that i represent. st. mary's park has a completely unique architecture. very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in san francisco. the bernal heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of san francisco. there is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top.

it is as if you are swinging over the entire city. there are two unique aspects. it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco. sixty% of the residents are of chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. not only for san francisco but for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have

the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise café. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [♪] >> it was formed in 2014. we had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. we worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues.

most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. so the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. >> in the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the mission district have been displaced from their community. we all know that the rising cost of living in san francisco has led to many people being displaced. lower and middle income all over the city. because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. >> it's a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. there is a lot of struggle between the existing community

and the newness coming in. there are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesn't completely erase the communities. we try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more equitable development in the area. >> you need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. the people on the businesses that came before you. you need to dialogue and show respect. and then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [♪] >> i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. so we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and working-class. >> back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like

mission street. this is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. we created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. that is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. we have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [♪]

>> commissioner mcdonald has an excused absence pick we welcome you but we ask you turn off any sound producing devices that may go off during the meeting, please. we would ask that you take any secondary conversations outside to. if you would like to speak on an item today, we request but do

not require that you complete a blue card. how many minutes per each item today? >> how many people here intend to speak to the commission, by rays of hand? okay. we will do two minutes per. >> okay. each person will have two minutes to speak on each item today for public comment. please, some of you may not have been here before, but a couple of things when you speak, please speak into the microphone microphone. anyone who is speaking. anyone else should be able to hear. when you make public comments, you will hear two bells. the first one is just letting you know you have 30 seconds back in the second one means your time is up. so when you speak, if there is an item of interest that is not on the agenda and it is under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under general public comment, and that is item four, and then

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we have one other announcement. that will be a change in order of the calendar today. the general manager's report will be heard out of order pack and it will follow item seven, the shadow item. with that, lets get started. president's report. >> in light of the number of people here, we will forgo a president's report. >> okay. is there any public comment on the item? being none, public comment is closed. i'm sorry? [indiscernible] >> okay. we are now on item four, which is general public comment up to 15 minutes. this item will be continued to item eight if need to be. at that time -- at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that

are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, and that do not appear on calendar. with respect to agenda items, you will have the opportunity to address the commission on the item is reached in the meeting. is there anyone who wants to make general public comment? okay. with no public comment, this item is closed. we are now on item five, the consent calendar. is there anyone who would -- richard, come on up. >> good morning, commissioners. i want to make a quick comment over the ropes course. i spoke up, not totally in favor because i was looking at the public health issue of it. i would like to include, when they do do the ropes course, that the paramedics at the

different firehouses be notified so they would have spinal training, spinal injury training and also have the ability to be ready for any major injury. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make general public comment? okay. being none, public comment on the consent calendar. my apologies. okay. being none, this item is closed. commissioners, we need a motion. >> so moved simon moved and seconded. all those in favor? aye. >> we are on item six pack the san francisco zoo. >> good morning, commissioners. a quick wrap of the recent holiday events, first at, zoo lights started on december 14th . as you know, it is a very popular community event on the west side of the city. a lot of people who otherwise

can't get to events in the city enjoy from pacifica, san mateo, and services throughout the city that was our opening. it goes through early january. please come. the next slide is opening night, despite the rain, we have nearly 2,000 people. we had a great celebration kickoff. please feel free to join us during the festivities. next up is the naming contest. we have a new six month old reindeer at the zoo. we have open to the public to offer naming him. it closed yesterday. tomorrow the top three names will go on our facebook page for a vote. i will give you a hint. the leading one right now is snowflake and that will be announced tomorrow. next up, we continue to be a great community resource for members of the community and our fellow city organizations. this past sunday, the local 798 posted 100 families for their

mentoring program at the zoo. and just deserving families from across the community his paired with mentors. they had a toad -- toy drive and the theme was hawaiian winter wonderland. that was a great celebration this past sunday. on thanksgiving day,, our new chimpanzee opens, click this champions he is the oldest one we have in a facility in the country. it was built specifically to help geriatric animals. we open thanksgiving day to great fanfare. this is one of our favorite pictures. >> is there any public comment on this item? this item was discussion only. we are now on item seven. 1052-1060 folsom street and 190- 194 russ street shadow on

victoria park. >> let me make a couple preliminary comments about this item before we hear it's. that is that while development in san francisco has generated lots of opinions by many residents and organizations, this commission is interested in and has a responsibility regarding the impact of a development shadow on a park. to the degree that it is possible, i would encourage anyone testifying on this to try and address their comments to the impact of the shadow on the park because while the planning commission takes into consideration many aspects of the development, we take into consideration the impact of a shadow on the park. thank you. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. i am stacy bradley, the deputy director of the planning unit with a capital planning commission.

i am doing today with the planning department. the item before you today is a shadow passed by 1052-1050 fulton in 190-194 russ street. review of the shadow cast by this project supports objective 1.2 in the strategic plan. it strengthens the quality of existing parks and facilities. as you know, your review of the recreation and park land is codified by planning section 295 in the 1989 memo. the proposed project is located at 1052-1060 folsom street and 190-194 russ street. from now on, i will further to the project as 1052 folsom. previously, this commission heard a project on one of the three parcels at 190 russ street and this project was reviewed by the commission on january 15th 2015, and found to have a significant impact.

the area surrounding the project includes the park and a mix of residential and commercial uses with most buildings 2-4 stories in height. the proposed project would demolish four existing buildings on three parcels, and construct a new seven story mixed use building in their place. these are images of the proposed project on folsom and rest streets. doug will tell you for about the plot -- proposed project, his benefit, the public outreach project in the environmental review. thanks. >> good morning members of the commission. i'm with the planning department staff. so the projects that the department is considering is the demolition of five existing buildings that contain 10,000 square feet of commercial use and four dwelling units totaling

4,656 square feet. all located on three parcels. the project would merge these three parcels -- parcels and include the construction of a new seven-story 64 and a half foot tall 58,719 square-foot mixed-use building that would contain 2,832 square feet of ground floor commercial retail use, and 55,887 square feet of residential use that would contain 63 dwelling units which consists of three studios, 23 one-bedroom and 372 bedroom units. there would be private and common open space for the residents, and a 3,572 square foot ground floor level garage with access to a single driveway on russ street. it would contain 16 residential auto parking spaces as well as

63 class one bicycle parking spaces. under the california environmental quality act, the project is eligible to receive a community plant exemption under the eastern neighborhood's master e.i.r., and under that, the benefits of the project primarily include the addition of housing. the department is working under a mayoral mandate to basically approve 30,000 units of housing by 2020, so that includes 5,000 units of housing annually. this project will deliver a total of 63 dwelling units including the four replacement rent-controlled units. and within this total, the project will result in a net addition of 15 permanently affordable housing units to the city's housing stock.

that totals to about 25% of the total units. it would break down to six one-bedroom units and eight bedroom units and an additional bonus unit that is above the city. it will determine with the project sponsor as to the unit type. other benefits of this project would be that the project would ultimately put into place the vision and planning controls for the residential enclave district as well as the south of market neighborhood commercial transit district. that being that they use would contain ground floor commercial retail which is required along this corridor, and the proposed dwelling units above the ground story. so that those would be the basic benefits of the project. i am available for questions if you have any questions.

>> it is okay. we do need everyone to take a seat. if you have a card to, bring it on up, but there are seats available, and we cannot have that door blocked at all. please take a seat so we can continue. thank you. >> go ahead, stacy. >> thank you. it is 82.5 million acre park that includes -- 2.53-acre park. it includes children's play areas, a baseball court, and a ball field. the new shadow would fall along the northeastern corridor of the park. the new shadow would occur in late afternoon and evening hours and entering the park between 515 at 6:00 pm and through the remainder of the analysed afternoon and evening. the shadow would fall along the northeastern corner quarter of the park including the entry,

the basketball court, the northern children's play area and some benches. new shadow would be present for up to 110 minutes with average daily duration of just over an hour and over 70 minutes. the largest new shadow would occur on june 21st at 7:36 pm. the shadow would occur from the end of february through mid october. this shows a full year shadow impact. the darker blue signifies frequent shadow, while the lighter blue signifies occasional shadow. this animation shows the shadow enter and leave the park on june 21st, which is the summer solstice in the day of maximum fading and square foot hours. the shadow can be seen in blue and the project itself is an orange.

i will let it scroll one more time. for the quantitative analysis, as i mentioned, it is 2.53 acres in size. the existing shadow load is 7.4 1%. the proposed shadow would increase the load by 0.38% to a total of 7.7 9%. in 1989 memo provides sign -- signage with existing shadow load smaller than 20% are allowed a 1% increase in shadow load. finally, the shadow study analysed cumulative shadows cast by other nearby projects in the development pipeline. three projects would have shadow impact including 1075 and 1089 fulton street which is reviewed by the commission in october.

combined with the proposed project at 1052 per folsom, these projects could increase the shadow load by 0.46 over existing levels. this concludes my presentation. i will leave you with the quantitative criteria slide. i'm available for questions, as is doug from the planning department. >> thank you. >> as a reminder, we do need you to focus your comments on the impact of the shadow on the park as that is what the commission is considering today. so with that, i will go ahead and call off names. if you could come up, we will get going. [calling names] >> please come up in every -- any order.

remember it is two minutes. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is paul. i'm a born and raised san franciscan. i'm speaking today on behalf of golden properties. the owner of the project sponsor i would like to thank everybody in advance he will speak today about those who have voiced support for the project and those who express concerns over the shadow that is cast over the park. city parks are a valuable resource providing an opportunity for recreation and relaxation. we recognize that the treasured it is a treasured resource and also for the filipino cultural heritage community and the lgbtq cultural district. we also understand the importance of the park and the additional shadows. the first concern that some neighborhood groups have

expressed pertains to the filings that have nothing to do with this project. in 2013, we began filings on five buildings. we have never previously filed this and soon realized it was a mistake to do so. what he 15, the filings were abandoned and no evictions occurred. i repeat, no evictions occurred. in a good faith effort to make amends with a city in the community and thanks to the guidance of our late mayor, ed lee and supervisor jane kim kathy's buildings were sold to the mayor's office of small sites acquisition program. selling these properties will keep the 19 units in the five buildings permanently affordable we are sorry the evictions started and we are doing our best to make -- to right a wrong this project was redesigned from

46 units 263 offering more housing to families, more rental stock to the city and above all, more below-market rate housing. by maximizing the density of the three lots, we were doing our part to help create a culture. >> you are at times. >> okay. >> thank you. >> elizabeth, please. >> you can drop it with the clerk. >> my name is elisabeth. >> speak right into the microphone. my name is elizabeth and i am here in support of the project. i want to say i understand the community's concern about the shadow hitting the park, however after reviewing the shadow study prepared for this project, i noticed that the new shadows would fall on the dock amount and not the designated children 's play area which will occur on late summer afternoon. this project would bring 63 units of much-needed house into

the neighborhood, and i support this project. thank you. >> next speaker, please. and then i will read a few names before richard gets going. [calling names] >> good morning, commissioners. i am going to try and get it out early. i am one of the few in favor of this particular project over the shadow issue. it is within a project that should go ahead. i have already taken the liberty of speaking with the developer representatives. they've informed me that they are not going to be evicting through the act. i found it to be very important. the key point i wanted to bring in has to do with all of you here today, i have already brought in capturing the operational plan status period,

the possibility of including this particular park for the equity. i believe you are a director -- of the filipinos. in her letter to the commission is in agreement with the equity parameter. i should like to see people constructively looking at this comment. we think we can get a whole lot more that would be in the best interest for the people regardless of what your race is, of the diversity requirements that he would be cordial enough to accept the equity proposal that has already been brought before the general manager in their operations committee. thank you. >> thank you.

>> george? >> good morning, commissioners. i am here to speak directly into the microphone in support of this project. i am a born and raised san franciscan. i live and work here, and i frequent the park a couple times a year and speaking just to the benefit of this project to the park, if you have ever been there in the early evening, late evening, you will see there is not many people out there. however, there is a particular element that does arrive around sundown and it is not desirable. to have more units close by, more people, more eyes, more families that would frequent the park i think would provide a net benefit to the environment of the park. that is it. >> thank you. >> next speaker.

>> good morning, commissioners. my name is heather phillips, and i work and have been a resident for the last 15 years. and while i appreciate folks coming out to share their observations attending the park 1-2 times a year, i am at the park all the date -- every day. the young people i serve play there every day. summer evenings, 6:00 pm, it is hard to imagine now when it is dark at five, but 6:00 as well into the late hours. it is not dark until 8:00 pm. these are valuable hours. we are here to talk about shadow and what the impact is. not the merits of the developer. the reality is this building will take away sunlight from a park that is public space that we will never get back. that has an impact. what the developer has done to

mitigate that is the absolute minimum. what is required by planning code is all they are willing to give. today i would rather not be here we are preparing for a crisp -- christmas party for 200 kids tonight in selma at the recreation centre. you are all invited. they will be there with their families. they are the ones who use the park every day, and i would rather be there, but i need to be here, because i need to tell you how important it is to keep these spaces sacred. to make sure that there is sunlight and fresh air and places to play. we have the smallest amount of open space of anyone. please, i am begging you to protect it. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. can we have the overhead please? >> our director and i will share these two minutes. i will be super brief.

>> overhead, please. >> don't start my? yet. >> i haven't. >> sorry. >> all right. >> it is on. >> here we go. so i don't know -- it is on. okay. perfect. here we are. this commission unanimously rejected the shadow in 2015. this is where we are today. the city's housing balance will not live or die on this project. i understand the dire need, but this is serious. so i would hope that you would stick with the vote that you made in 2015 and honor this park , on our community. i will pass it on to you.

>> happy every day, commissioners. on the executive director of united players of violence organization that is based in the south of market. right now, i am a block from the park. i lived there and raise my family there. she was a filipino diver that 14 olympic gold medals in her late days but they never acknowledged her as a filipino. now we have a porch named after a filipino in a heritage zone, it has a hundred years of filipinos. here we are again trying to knock her name. we said that three years ago that we did not want to know shadows on it. it was agreeable. we have buildings, we have the only part named after a filipino we have somebody here who has a

batting cage named after them. and now you're trying to tear us over a shadow over this. it is about principal. it isn't about money. it is not about development, it is about principal to us in our community. let the filipinos that we have in the city right here be honored. thank you. >> i would hope that you would stick with your original vote. i could see how you could go backward from this shadow to this shadow, but i don't understand how you can go backward from the shadow to one that is five times larger. i want to share really quickly, i am not mad at them, but my friends in the back are getting paid $20 to be here. i can't paid people to be here. >> you are out of time. thank you for coming in the mass as opposed to speaking individually. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm kind of nervous. my name is carrie lena. i will be one of the affected persons. i live on 1054 folsom street across the street from the park,

i wish i had taken pictures before to prove that it is true. there are not many kids from the park at 5:00 am or six -- at 5:00 pm or 6:00 pm. i live across the street from the park. even at 10:00, i see people and hear people playing basketball at 10:00 pm. this is adults. i don't see, i honestly do not think that this project will not benefit the kids. i live right across the street. i wish i had taken pictures to prove there are not many kids at on that park. i see them on the other side on harrison where they play baseball.

there are batting cages. that area will be okay. but on the side of folsom street , i don't think that the building will be damaged -- that the shadow will -- how can i say this? >> impact. >> yeah,. sorry. i'm nervous. >> that's fine. don't be nervous. >> i do approve of this project. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. betty and michael, and then i will read a few more names off. [calling names] >> go ahead. >> thank you very much. i am the coordinator of the friends of the park in the tenderloin. we look at the park as a treasure to our community, as victoria manolo drake park i